All Holler critters are ecstatic drought is done!
California Scrub Jay is normally quite shy.
But winter drought seed shortages,
draw him close for Holler hand-outs!
Giving us an up-close glimpse,
of happy winter blues!
Cheers to you from The Holler’s joyful jays~
Gorgeous bird!! Love a happy Jay ❤
Yes, love all happy healthy wild creatures!
Beautiful blue…
I love the hue too!
Those are beautiful jays, Cindy! We have been listening to the reports of weather in California. Good news the drought is over, but now the flood danger.
Famine and then feast!
Beautiful birds…
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He’s beautiful!
He’s a looker all right!
Amazing shots !
Very pleased you enjoyed them!
Gorgeous birds – love that blue!
It is a happy hue!
I don’t know nothing about birds, apart from the supposed fact that some birds fly while others mostly tend to float. This bird in your pictures however is truly beautiful with his blue coat. He (?) looks like a master of ceremonies at a wedding. All is going well, but where is the bride…. 🙂
Tee hee hee. Hopefully she hasn’t flown the coop! 😉
Great shots of that beautiful bird!
Ah, thanks much!
Your photos are amazing, Cindy! Thanks for sharing them. 🙂
Thank you more for appreciating them & cheers to you~
GREAT photos Cindy, thanx. The blue jays in my yard are NOT shy. They will dive bomb me or the cats if we get close to their nests. ~~dru~~
Lucky you! Are they western scrub jays? I think the reason ours may be so shy is because they live in The Holler’s oak groves and are inundated with nuts and seeds to eat.. The drought reduced the availability, so they are finally willing to feed at the Holler bird feeders.
I’ve noticed that the birds have pecked all the pyracantha berries down to the last one, and seem to be going after any fruit left on the trees. I swore I wouldn’t buy more bird seed in this new house, but I’ve relented. None of it has gone to waste here in the new house, that’s for sure.
ps……… your photographs are just so beautiful.
Yes, I have seen them do this too! We have lots and lots of unpicked pomegranates in our orchard and this usually feeds the birds all winter, but not this year, causing even the jays to come to the Holler feeders. I am glad you are putting out seed~ <3
Wonderful photographs!
So kind & thank you!
Great captures of these beautiful birds, Cindy.
Aw, thank you my friend~ <3
Wow – What Pretty Birds!
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He is beautiful.
I love him too & thank you!
Got that mojo out again, have ya?! I’m so glad that your drought is over and as always these are amazing photos dear Cindy!!! Love and hugs, N 🙂 <3
Hugs back to you and yours my dear friend~ <3
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Western jays always make me think of old cowboys…
That is a nice western association!
What a beautiful colored bird. I have never heard of it, neither have I seen one when we lived in CA. Blue is my favorite color. He is showing off in the first picture. 🙂
He is and he is the most most beautiful hue of blue!
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He’s a beauty! Great captures as always Cindy.
Hugs to you Dor and hope your foot is improving! <3
I am very happy too for all the little ‘tweeters’ who now don’t have to fly elsewhere to look for water and vegetation, etc. to eat on. May they all be blessed with sweet treats and all mother nature has in abundance for them. 🙂
Thank you Joyce! It has been a hard six years for the wild creatures and for the trees and plants. Thank God it is over!
What an absolutely gorgeous creature, Cuz, white eyebrows and all !!!! Wonderful pics too. ………………..Hugs !
Back at you cuz & loved your last two posts~
The scrub jays up here in the pacific northwest look similar, but have more grey on their undersides. They rule over other local birds, including their Steller’s jay relatives, but not our resident crows. I heard people can train them to eat peanuts out of their hands.
I would love to get my jays to do that, but I think once the acorns start producing they will back in the oak groves ignoring me! I love Stellar Jays!
What a beautiful little bird, Cindy 🙂
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I thank you on his handsome behalf!
You certainly captured images that reflect a certain assertive mindset they have here. When it comes to going out and getting food, they look like they mean business! That look in their eyes!
I know! They are just awesome.
Essentially they want little to do with me.
Sometimes they will pop over to our actual house to watch what all the other birds are doing at our various feeding stations, but they remain elusive.
I got a few good shots over the nine years I’ve lived here!
We have several large oak groves on our property and the western bluebirds, several sub-types of woodpeckers (including a really rare type), other rare and exotic local birds, and the scrub jays, tend to hang in these groves.
I wear snake books, have chairs permanently in place for observation, but am basically unsuccessful at capturing any really good photo.
It is still amazingly fun to watch them though!
Birds, as you and I know, are wonderful!
Hugs to you dear Lyn, lots of them~ <3
Grew up with scrub jays and miss them. They’re quite the characters!
Oh, I do so understand you!
You, of course, remember Mark Twain. He described jay’s innate superiority best, and compared them to politicians.
Twain didn’t miss much.
I did a post on both jays, and Twain, a long time ago
Check it out:
https://cindyknoke.com/2014/06/19/corvids-congressmen/
That blue. That lovely, lovely blue! 🙂
It is a ethereal blue hue! Thank you for seeing.
These shots of Blue are excellent, Cindy. Beautiful little guy.
Ahh, thank you! <3
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More beautiful photos by Cindy.
Beautiful friends like you recognize the amazing beauty in something as fragile and strong as, a blue jay.
People like you are why I love to blog.
She is so graceful 🙂
Have a great weekend, Cindy 🙂
xo <3
Visa versa 2 U X 2! <3
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Beautifully photographed!
He is beautiful
He thinks you have excellent taste!! 😉
Nice eyebrows! <3
Tres’ chic!
Lovely photos, Cindy! What a delightful little bird. 🙂
He agrees with you! 😉
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How wonderful for everyone that the drought has broken. It will be interesting to see if the blue jay keeps coming out of habit or will revert to seclusion.
It will be, but I suspect the latter once the acorns return!
wow, was für ein Blau 🙂
Vielen dank mein Freund~ <3
I love the color blue and these birds are so blue and beautiful. Thank you Cindy. 🙂
Thank you & Happy Friday Ranu~ <3
That’s as blue as a very blue thing… 🙂
True blue hue!
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Not bad. Not bad at all.
Thank you sir and hope spring will be springing up soon for you my friend~
Primroses/daffs out, birds ripping straw out of thatch roofs, dropping moss all over the place for nest lining. It’s getting there.
If you live in a thatched house, I am jealous. Here is one of my favorite homes:
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It was AA Milne’s house…..
I don’t but there are plenty around here. One of the pubs has a spectacular thatched roof.
I rather expected AA Milnes’s house to be thatched. Another illusion shattered.
No illusion shattered thank goodness, wise man. It was originally thatched. Of course it had to be! It is how I imagine it as well. Note reference:
“Cotchford Farm is a farmhouse building to the southwest of the village of Hartfield, East Sussex, it was originally built with wattle and daub infilled walls and a thatched roof, but … Milne wrote all of his Winnie-the-Pooh books at the house, often inspired by the local landscape, and died at Cotchford Farm in 1956.”
Wiki
‘…it was originally built with wattle and daub infilled walls and a thatched roof…’ Now it’s brick and slate. It’s a bit like that guy who’s had the same broom for 35 years. It’s had three new heads and two new handles.
Yes!
Really stunning captures. I think sometimes we take for granted the beauty around us. This reminds viewers to be still a while and notice again.
This is important. If the photos reminded you to do this, then I am very happy. Thank you!
Scrub Jay is so blue-tiful….(♡´❍`♡)*✧ ✰ 。*
He blue my mind!!! 😉
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Beautiful. I’ll be singing that Vera Lynn song all day now. All together: ‘There’ll be blue birds over…..’!! 🙂
Uh oh! Now I am too! 😉
Lol – sorry about that! 🙂
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They are so pretty! I love the last picture the best👍
They look directly at you with this evidently playful personality. So happy you see this too!
Hy, Cindy. This bird is very beautiful, and your pictures magnificent, as always, Thanks.
Ah, you are very kind Isabel. Have a wonderful weekend~ <3
Beautiful bird and absolutely amazing pictures of it!
Honored by your thoughtfulness!
He’s such a pretty little fellow! 🙂
He stands out which makes him shy. I am happy you like him & cheers to you~
what a beautiful bird, I love his rich blue colour. You got some fantastic shots Cindy! 🙂
Ahh, thank you kindly and Happy Friday!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend Cindy 🙂
Visa versa 2UX2!
Beautiful blue bird! So glad to hear drought is gone!! 🙂
It is a huge relief. We have gotten oodles of rain and it is all just being soaked in at The Holler. Everyone is happy!
You really captured this little guy’s personality, Cindy. Such a lovely shade of blue… Mega hugs!
He does have oodles of personality doesn’t he! They have excellent senses of humor and are so much fun to watch. Thank you for your thoughtfulness Teagan and hugs back to you~
Have a very nice we dear
kisses
Happy Friday to you too!
Thank you Voulah. 🙂
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Thank you for sharing these beautiful gems! Sorry they are having seed shortages!
Hopefully, with all the rain, the next seed season will make up for it~
I didn’t realize that jays were shy. I’m delighted you and the holler have been visited by these beautiful jays and nourishing rains. hugs!
People say their jays are not, but The Holler jays are exceedingly shy, possibly because they usually have access to forests full of acorns.
Interesting and my experience is with the larger Blue Jays.
Oh, I would love to see them!
So very beautiful. What a color. The blue is so amazing. Thank you.
The blues can make you happy! <3
The Scrub Jays I’ve seen around here are more solid colored than striped. Are those guys typical for you or are they juveniles?
These are typical. I am now confused though about whether or not there is a difference between Western Scrub Jays and California Western Scrub Jays. I will have to google it.
We don’t have blue jays here, so it is delight to see some. Thank you. G. 🙂
P.S. I wonder if there is a fog upon L.A. 🙂
‘And my friends have lost their way.
“We’ll be over soon,” they said.
Now they’ve lost themselves instead.’
This happens all the time here. I just assumed they were smoking too much pot! 😉 😉
It is always a pleasure to communicate with a person of wit and discernment. 🙂 Now about those Happiness Engineers ~ 😀
I think maybe the bluebird of happiness left a gift on one or two computer screens! 😉 🙂
What a beautiful colour of blue, Cindy. You got some lovely takes there.
Leslie
Thank you kindly my friend & Happy Friday!
Have a wonderful weekend, Cindy.
Leslie
U 2 my friend~ <3
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What a beautiful blue and brown on that bird. Stunning
He thinks you have excellent taste! 😉
Ha ha ha If only animals could talk.
It would be a rude awakening for us. They might tell us what they really think of us!!! 😉 😉
I’m glad you said it as I was thinking that very same thought. lol
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Cute, and his body language is so expressive 🙂
Yes, he has personality! <3
That bird is beautiful and those photos are just amazing
Ah, so thoughtful of you and appreciated too~
Lovely birds, Cindy — and you got some GREAT shots of them!!
They finally posed for me! 😉
We have many Western Scrub Jays and Steller’s Jays in my neck of the woods…I love watching them! Excellent photos, here…happy Friday, my dear friend!
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I love the Stellar’s with their mohawks! They don’t live at The Holler, but they are close and always a treat to see~
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I love jay birds…the smallest members of the family Corvidae. Cindy captured this friendly little guy perfectly!
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They are such cool birds! Thank you for championing them my dear friend and cheers to you~ <3 <3
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Wow, this is a true beauty! What colours and confidence! A real star.
Yes! So happy the confidence comes across in the photos. They have oodles of it! Cheers to you Leya~ <3
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So eye-catching with that brilliant blue. A pretty bird, Cindy. Lovely photos 🙂
Ah, you are very kind and I thank you my friend~ <3
Beautiful bird I’m glad spring is there and your drought is over.
More rain expected tomorrow which is wonderful. We are above seasonal norms and the lakes and aquifers are filling!
Never saw one of these critters when we lived in CA. Thanks for the introduction!
They avoid suburban congestion, smart birds, and at The Holler they tend to avoid us!
Beautiful blue birdie to brighten the day! Hugz sweetie have a great weekend! Lisa and Bear
Hugz back to you two and wonder what you are cooking up now……
He is just handsome!
He agrees with you and thinks you have excellent judgement! 😉 😉
These birds are so beautiful!
They are elusive around here, so always a big thrill to see! <3
My Mom would have loved these little guys. She was a great bird watcher. Where she lived there were a ton of stellar jays.
I love the Stellars! They are, well, stellar! 😉
🙂
It is incredible how you could capture the beauty of this little bird. The blue color is impressive in the.
Awww, thank you for your kindness and all the best to you!
I bet all sorts of bugs will be coming out of the woodwork with all that moisture. Good to have the birds to balance the grubs.
Oscar
We’ve controlled the snails in prior years thank goodness, so they are not too bad now. We live amongst very old orchards, so the bug situation here is like something out of The Hellstrom Chronicles. We get some incredible bugs!
Beautiful,he actually has his feathers more blue than my eyes.
Uh oh, competition for you blue eyes! 😉
I can’ t compete with the freaking bird
No one can! Think of all the women who have covered themselves in feathers trying to do just that!
You know me….. and now you are pushing it, I’m still trying to count the last women………
😉
love ya
Beautiful Blue Bird, Cindy. <3
I once read, happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments. This beauty makes you stop and cherish the moment. <3
Wishing you a wonderful weekend. xox
Yes the mythical Bluebird of Happiness! The bluebird is the patron saint of “women who lived outside traditional roles.” My kinda bird! Check out what wiki says about these ancient beliefs:
“The symbol of a bluebird as the harbinger of happiness is found in many cultures and may date back thousands of years. One of the oldest examples (found on oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, 1766-1122 BC) is from pre-modern China, where a blue bird (qingniao) was the messenger bird of Xi Wangmu, the ‘Queen Mother of the West’ who began life as a fearsome goddess and Immortal. By the Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD) she had evolved into a Daoist fairy queen and the protector/patron of “singing girls, dead women, novices, nuns, adepts and priestesses…women [who] stood outside the roles prescribed for women in the traditional Chinese family”
Excellent, dear friend. Klausbernd says “thank you, Cindy!” 🙂 KB writes books about symbolism and collects anything interesting and is all smiles … and so are Siri, Selma and myself. We very much like the idea of being women and Fairy Beings totally outside traditional roles. 😊 💃🏼👭✨💫⭐️🌟 💕💕💕
“We very much like the idea of being women and Fairy Beings totally outside traditional roles.”
It is a wonderful reframe of how to think about ourselves isn’t it! I love it too. It just feels ‘right’.
I wonder if Jung is up there somewhere enjoying Klausbernd’s mind. and this discussion! It wouldn’t surprise me.
Me neither … 🙂
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Dear Cindy
I suppose that the bluebird is the patron for women living outside traditional roles has to do with it’s colour. The colour blue symbolises introversion. That’s easy to experience, if you look at a blue surface you have the feeling you are drawn into it. Kandinsky called it “the centripetal power of blue”. And so it doesn’t take wonder that blue is the colour of romanticism – the blue flower of romanticism (going back to Novalis’ fragment “Heinrich von Oftedingen”).
On the other hand blue is mainstream as well, as most people of the western world have blue as their favourite colour. But this is the polarity you find in every colour. Blue between mainstream and individualism.
Thank you very much for your information about blue in the Chinese culture.
Have a happy Sunday
Klausbernd
Fascinating about the connection with introversion, and the water metaphor makes perfect sense with it’s enticing nature, doesn’t it. Maybe Narcisiss wasn’t just gazing at himself, but thinking of diving in! Love this idea that blue symbolizes individual escape and thus somehow, happiness. I know you contemplate rivers and this imagery brings forth even more associated symbolism. Blue is also associated with sadness, and with melancholy, soulful music in mainstream culture. Interesting isn’t it? A color that represents such opposites in people’s minds, happiness/sadness, introversion/romanticism, and the possibility of escape.
This discussion makes me think of grapheme synesthesia. Maybe you and I are lucky enough to have a bit of this.
You are wonderful to talk with Klausbernd. Thank you!
Dear Cindy,
thank you very much, it’s great talking with you, I really appreciate it 🙂
It’s interesting that all the primary colours show this polarity. Goethe saw this polarity as a basis of nature. And I suppose that makes symbolism like colour symbolism that powerful, as it is multi-dimensional (in contrast to the one-dimensional).
Anyway this were just some idea on a sunny Monday morning.
Have a happy week
Klausbernd
Primary colors, unlike the stark contrast of ying and ying, do have this multi-dimensionality. Fascinating. Love your ideas~
I suppose to make something interesting it needs a tension/polarity as it reflects the polarity that is basic for life (Nietzsche was emphasising this point). If I remember it right, the Buddhist believe that life is produced by the polarity of the highest and the lowest chakra. If you die this tension is nullified.
Maybe every basic symbolism like colours reflects the structure of life. It mirrors the human structure – your Yin-Yang-idea.
Thanks for your inspiring imput 🙂
Fascinating Klausbernd. Buddha talked about “right action.” And of course there is the polarity within our own psyches, the dialectical tension between the id and superego, the clash between positive and negative self talk, all these diametrically conflicting impulses. It is all such a mystery, fun to ponder, impossible to truly figure out. Maybe death will resolve the mystery, but that is the most ultimate mystery of all!
Be well my friend.
Dear Cindy
Thank you very much!
With lots of love to my dear friend
Klausbernd
I feel lucky to find a like minded soul across a distant sea~
Absolutely gorgeous, Cindy! Glad to hear that your drought has ended. Now, we just need to get those seeds to your friends! 😀
I’m buying out the seed store! We have flocks feeding here and of course the year round hummers! It is pretty awesome. Cheers to you Linda & thank you~ <3
Amazing photos of beautiful birds!
You are a sweet friend. Thank you for your tireless advocacy~ <3
Now that is one bluetiful bird! Yet another creature I’ve discovered on your blog. TY, Cindy!
Yay, introducing you to a new bird makes my day! The bluebird is the patron saint of unusual women who occupy non-standard roles according to ancient Chinese beliefs, so of course you respond to her! <3
:star: Yay! ♥♥
:star: :star:
Do you have to wait a long time to see and photograph those birds? Or are those pictures snapshots?
I don’t use a tripod, but I do wait a long time. I love it. It keeps totally focused on the moment~
Thank you for the Information, Cindy. I probably have to wait more often.
If you can find a place to sit, this works best. Happy watching!
I tried it today and had a little success while I was thinking of you!
Yay! The other thing you will notice is how Zen like the experience becomes. You truly do become fully engrossed in the moment with out effort or meditation.
I made Zen meditation for years 🙂
Then you know just what I mean. Birds like it when you Zen~ <3
Yes, Cindy. And the watercolour technique is also a “Zen-activity” 🙂
Yes, I imagined that with you.
I didn’t know the Scrub Jay was normally shy. I thought all jays were fairly aggressive. These photos are beautiful, Cindy 💖
Yes, I think around food sources they are, like feeders and picnic grounds. But at The Holler they have oak groves with tons of natural food, so the avoid my feeders, until the drought, brought them closer.
My jays are bossy, but cute! So glad your drought is over 🙂
I don’t know why The Holler Jays are so shy and well behaved! It must be something in the acorns! 😉 😉
What a lovely shade of blue this jay is. What a great feeling it must be to capture a very shy species in an image or two.
Actually it looks a bit like a sparrow in shape.
It is a bit elongated. I can identify a jay against the sun (when it is all black) by it’s slender, long silhouette, and elongated tail.
As a bird lover, jays are at the top of my list. I never knew one could be shy. I used to live in a quiet area and would leave my kitchen back door open. It never failed. Nearly every day, a blue jay (most likely the same one) brazenly flew into my kitchen and grabbed whatever scraps of fruit were left on my table. My young son and I marveled at this. It was quite thrilling to watch. Great post, Cindy, as always. 💙
Oh my God! I would so love this! Everyone is telling me their jays aren’t shy and I have seen this in picnic grounds, but at The Holler, they are reticent and elusive. I am guessing it is because they normally have a steady supply of food items in the oak groves.
Such a pretty bird! Love your pics!
I love your thoughtful comment and your blog my friend~
You’re welcome!!
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Exquisite! You do such a nice job with birds. It’s easy to see how much you love them. 🙂
Awww, what a lovely comment. Thank you! Birds do definitely seem to sense when people care about them. I think wild animals in general are good at perceiving threat, and hence non-threat. We had a window strike this morning. I sat with the sparrow, waiting to see if he revived. He did slowly. Finally he was up and okay and we just sat together, with him occasionally snoozing, which caused me to close my eyes. When I next looked he had flown away~
Great shots of such a cute blue birdie!! 🙂
So glad you enjoyed him & Happy Sunday Christy!
che incredibili colori
Sì! La bella tonalita di blu!
These are great shots! We have a pair of these living in the garden. Gorgeous birds!
It would be wonderful to watch them nest!
One of them will fly down and take peanuts from my hand.
I want to take photos of this!
That can be done. I’d love to get shots of this bird that are as clear as yours.
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Nature is celebrating when the rains come! Beautiful birds, that blue is really striking.
Yes indeed! It is nature’s party and long overdue! <3
what beautiful color!
They are a true blue hue! <3
Great shots CIndy and so sharp as always
So pleased you enjoyed & cheers to you~
so much Beauty in the holler blues.. 🙂
I love them for flying in their true blue hues!
🙂 🙂 Definitely that!
So vivid Cindy!! Do you have bird feeders to lure them into your yard?? I love their fragile little legs!! Love your posts! xox
Oh yes! Laughing. Feeders for the seed eaters and the nectar eaters, boxes for the owls, fruit for the fruit eaters and baths so everyone stays clean! 😉 😉
Fun!! Sounds like a busy place!
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beste Grüße von mir zum Frauentag
Glucklicher Frauen-Tag zu Ihnen und danke mein Freund!
What a gorgeous little fellow! That blue is spectacular. Great shots, Cindy!
He thinks you are a woman of great taste and discernment and I agree with him! <3 😉
Aw….shucks. 🙂
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Ooooo, I want one of those California Scrub Jays in my garden. What a fantastic colour! Our jays in the UK are fairly impressive but not nearly as pretty as your ones.
I love them. We have 600 species of birds in my county, more than anywhere else in the continental US. I got some clicks of a new one yesterday, and have yet to research what it is. Love this, and I know I would love your garden and your birds my friend! <3
So pretty, the vivid colors are awesome. I am just curious…what camera/lens are you shooting with Cindy?
I use both the sony hx400 which has an adjustable zoom lens up to 1200mm and the sony rx10.
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for asking & cheers to you!
What a beautiful Jay…ours are pinky with blacks and greys. Yours are much prettier! I love that shade of blue they look so exotic ☺
Pinky? Now I want to see yours!
They’re not bright radiant pink like your birdlife manages to be 🙂 Much more muted and toned down… you could say like the great British reserve!😀
I like that! Reserved and more polite British style jays! Now I really want to see them~ <3
I’ll try to find a pic for you! We don’t see many round here, my bird table is usually patrolled by giant fat wood pigeons and crow like creatures!
You have magpies don’t you? I love them. I give them food and they bring me presents. We don’t have them at The Holler.
Oh yes! We get all the big guys ☺ It is truly hilarious watching a magpie clinging for dear life to the bird feeder full of nuts intended for the dinky little blue tits! We have a pair of them usually doing battle with the pair of big fat wood pigeons for space on the table 😉 Magpies are serious gannets and generally big bullies! But can’t not fees them anyway when they land pointedly on the bird table when I appear outside….and there’s nothing for them to eat…They are soooo manipulative! lol 😃
I took a bazillion photos of a some magpies harassing a fox family in central London. I had just flown in from Africa and was looking forward to some tea & civilization. Ha! It was safari time in central London. I was glued to my hotel window that would only open about four inches, photographing down into the Duke of Bedford’s walled garden for hours and a couple days watching the drama. The parents caught a magpie. The kits were practising stalking the magpies, and the magpies gave them holy hell for days! It was wonderful. I never did get the tea, but I was fully entertained.
Here you go….nice polite British Jay bird!😀 http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Eurasian_Jay
And here’s a video ☺ Apparently we have blue Jays too but can’t say I’ve ever seen one. Seems the typical British Jay is also known as the Eurasian_Jay. That was news to me as well!
He’s gorgeous! And they mob hawks! How brilliant of them. They seem like a cross between north american woodpeckers (who hide acorns like your jays) and Stellar Jays with the stripes. I would love to see and photograph them! Thanks for the photos and videos. What fun~
Cindy, your photos of birds are so beautiful and always my favorite! Today, in snowy NY, a lovely female cardinal was seeking shelter near our windowsill. I wanted to get a photo but I would have disturbed her by lifting the blinds.
I have seen one cardinal in my entire life, so I would very much love to see yours, even better with the snow, for the photo of course, not for you, or the cardinal! <3
Ooooh… truly blue-tiful photos! 🙂 💜 Jackie@KWH
Merci beaucoup mon ami! <3
Thank you Cindy. 🙂
Thank you for posting the shots and liking my post. 🙂
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What great colouring, we have blue tits in our garden at home but I’ve never seen such a bright blue bird.
I think it makes him a bit self conscious, almost as if he knows he stands out among his more dun colored peers. The orioles are here now though, so he’s beginning to get his spring-color competition! 🕊️
Thank you for the like, Cindy. 🙂
This is a brilliant blue jay bird! I love how the Holler is full of exotic and beautiful sights in flora and fauna!
It’s nice to be back home with my birdies! 🕊️
Always wonderful to get back home, no matter how much fun and great times transpired while away. Like Dorothy said, “There’s no place like home,” Cindy! 🙂 <3
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Beautiful photos. I can see you down on the ground snapping away. Great captures.
I am pretty much Zen’d out when I am taking photos. It’s wonderful. Hugs to you my friend.